Emotional Intelligence, Core-Self Evaluation, and Life Satisfaction

Esin Özer,M Engin Deniz,Erdal Hamarta

doi:10.4236/psych.2016.72017

Abstract

In this study it is aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, core self evaluation and life satisfaction of college students and to determine whether emotional intelligence and core self evaluation predict life satisfaction or not. Study was carried out in accordance with relational survey model. The study group contains the students with age ranges vary from 17 to 21. The study group includes the university students of Duzce University’s (Turkey) different classes of Faculty of Education, Health Faculty, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Management whose ages range from 17 to 21, 101 of whom are males (31.7%), 218 of whom are females (68.3%), 319 in total, selected with cluster sampling method randomly, and participate in the study voluntarily. In the study, The Life Satisfaction Scale, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-SF and The Core-Self Evaluation Scale was used. In the consequence of the analysis, it was observed that, there were significant relations between emotional intelligence, core-self evaluation and life satisfaction. Emotional intelligence and core-self evaluation clarify 34% of variance in life satisfaction.

Highlights

In recent years, positive psychology “which is one of the important study areas of psychology” has come into the prominence
Correlation results about the relation between life satisfaction, emotional intelligence and core-self evaluation (Table 1) and emotional intelligence and core-self evaluation predicting the life satisfaction is presented in (Table 2)
When the beta values are examined, respecting whether which variables predict life satisfaction, it has been observed that well being which is in the sub-dimension of emotional intelligence (β = 0.460, p < 0.01), self esteem which is in the sub-dimensions of core-self evaluation (β = 0.182, p < 0.01) and sociability which is in the sub-dimension of emotional intelligence (β = 0.139, p < 0.01)

Summary

Introduction

Positive psychology “which is one of the important study areas of psychology” has come into the prominence. One of the essential parts of the literature of positive psychology is the life satisfaction. The life satisfaction includes the general evaluation about the quality of a person’s life with regard to the criteria that he/she chooses. Satisfaction areas include job, family, leisure time, health, money, self and the immediate environment of the person. The life satisfaction is regarded as the indicator that the person evaluates his/her life positively and his/her subjective well being. The life satisfaction is closely associated with the positive personal, psychological, social results. Individuals with a high life satisfaction encounter better life consequences like economic success, academic success, self-confidence, self-efficacy, mental health, supportive relationships, efficient coping, physical health and the length of lifetime (Suldo & Huebner, 2006)

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